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Inside vs Domestic - What's the difference?

inside | domestic |

As nouns the difference between inside and domestic

is that inside is the interior or inner or lesser part while domestic is a house servant; a maid; a household worker.

As adjectives the difference between inside and domestic

is that inside is originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation while domestic is of or relating to the home.

As a preposition inside

is within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.

As an adverb inside

is within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.

inside

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The interior or inner or lesser part.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
  • (colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
  • (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
  • * The Anti-Jacobin
  • So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides .
  • * (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
  • So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
  • He placed the letter inside the envelope.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.
  • It started raining, so I went inside .
  • (colloquial) In prison.
  • He's inside , doing a stretch for burglary.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.
  • The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
    The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
    They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
  • (baseball) A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
  • The first pitch is ... just a bit inside .
  • Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc.
  • Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.

    Synonyms

    * indoors

    Antonyms

    * outside

    Derived terms

    * inside job

    domestic

    Alternative forms

    * domestick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the home.
  • * 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
  • “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
  • Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
  • (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
  • * 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
  • It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
  • Internal to a specific country.
  • * 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
  • The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable * (kept by someone) domesticated

    Antonyms

    * (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social * (local) foreign * (kept by someone) wild, feral

    Derived terms

    * domestic cat * domestic hot water * domestic violence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
  • * Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
  • A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
  • * 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
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